10/31/2023 0 Comments Christchurch shooting video explicitSome families asked the government to forgo any memorial service this year, while Abbas is part of another group of women who are hosting a week of unity-themed events – including her day of friendly futsal (a fast-paced, five a side version of indoor soccer) for 42 school children aged 10 to 14. The sense of limbo means the fourth anniversary is fraught and tinged with uncertainty. for people to really remember what they did for their Muslim neighbours Noraini Abbas We want the wider community to get together. Jacinda Ardern, then prime minister, was swift to ban all weapons used in the attack – but four years later, a coronial process investigating the deaths is in its early stages and many of the bereaved and survivors are still seeking catharsis and facts. The horror of the 2019 terrorist attack has been at times intensified, and at others muted, by the fact that it happened in New Zealand – a relatively quiet and peaceful country that was shaken by a rare mass shooting, but responded with compassion for the victims and rejection of the Australian gunman’s racist motivations. A plaque erected by Noraini Abbas and Lyttelton residents at Pony Point, near Christchurch, in memory of the victims of the mosque attacks.
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